Permissions

Do you need to obtain copyright permission? Is the work you intend to use in copyright? Does your intended use of the work fall outside the terms of a licence, fair dealing or another exception to copyright? If you answered yes to these questions, then you must obtain copyright permission.

To begin, check the UTL catalogue’s Permitted Uses to make sure that your proposed use of a journal article or book is listed under the Permitted Uses for that resource.

If your use is not permitted and you are certain that you need a licence, there are a number of ways you can proceed:

Contact the publisher of the work. A publisher’s licensing or clearances department will often have standard practices and policies enabling the efficient processing of permissions requests. If seeking permission for the use of an excerpt of a book, the Copyright Clearance Center often has up to date publisher contact information, especially useful for seeking permissions from smaller publishers.

Contact the author directly if you believe that the author holds copyright or if your efforts to contact the publisher were fruitless.